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An illustration of two small groups of connected circles, joined by one circle that belongs to both

Prosocial Design

A design lab for healthier social spaces, co-founded with Andy Moore. We build small research vehicles, like VanChat, to test how timing, size, and lightness affect trust and talk.

An illustration of a page of text turning into a sound wave

Reads

Bring a story, an essay or a letter, and hear it read in the voice of someone you love. With their permission, a short recording becomes a voice in your private library.

An illustration of three vertical video frames on a timeline, the middle one marked for review

Shortform Bandit

Human-directed video production built around reusable content profiles. Plan, review, and assemble short-form video in a local studio.

Mysterious Modular Device

It comes in pieces. You assemble it yourself. You aren't quite sure what all the pieces do.

An illustration of design tokens: color swatches, type, spacing, and component shapes

Design System

A workbench for exploring my apps' design tokens, components, and screen fixtures, alongside independent reference studies.

The blue, yellow, orange, and green Fischer Price Revolutionary Device

Fischer Price Revolutionary Device

A toy-like speculative design object about the risks designers take when they make new technology feel familiar, from physical and environmental harms to a culture of yearly upgrades.

A snowy floating island city with skyscrapers, a mountain waterfall, and a winding river — Market River, October 23 closing snapshot

Market River

Generative art driven by live stock market data. At the open, midday, and close, market and volatility moods become a river landscape through versioned templates, not ad-hoc prompts. Every image traces back to the market snapshot that made it. One visual style, systematically varied.

Learning Machines

Small experiments for understanding what happens inside a model.

Great Circle's loop planner: a circle over a city street grid by the water, with the center padlock, a round Size handle and the Start point

Great Circle

A cycling loop planner: pick a start point and distance, get a near-circular route, and export it as GPX for your bike computer.

Verbosele level one with the word THREE ready to guess

Verbosele

Wordle with levels. Solve words from 5 to 9 letters across five rounds on one shared pool of 18 lives, with optional thesaurus hints. Made for my mom.

Focus Speed Reader on a phone showing the word one, its middle letter highlighted, above the playback controls

Focus Speed Reader

A browser speed reader for EPUBs and plain text. Words flash one at a time at the WPM you choose, and your library stays on your device.

A phone screen showing a spoon on a black background

The Spoon App

Use your phone as a spoon. It works best on a phone you can fit in your mouth.